Excerpts from Theodotus 5.4

Clement of Alexandria · Excerpts from Theodotus · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Christ commanded silence so that his enemies would not hold back from putting him to death, which would have left the plan of salvation unfulfilled.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:107

σαρκὶ διὰ τὸ συμπεπλέχθαι αὐτῇ. τὸ δὲ »μηδενὶ εἴπητε«, ἵνα μὴ ὅ ἐστιν ὁ κύριος νοήσαντες, ἀπόσχωνται τοῦ ἐπιβάλλειν τῷ κυρίῳ τὰς χεῖρας καὶ ἀτελὴς ἡ οἰκονομία γένηται καὶ ὁ θάνατος ἀπόσχηται τοῦ κυρίου, ὡς μάτην πειράζων ἐπὶ ἀνηνύτῳ.

English · Claude translation

because it is intertwined with it. “Tell no one,” so that, having understood what the Lord is, they might not refrain from laying hands on the Lord, and the plan be left unfulfilled, and death keep away from the Lord, as trying in vain at an impossible task.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:107 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/4/).

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